The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

[JackAubrey]

Originally Posted by johan_d

Dont be affraid.. it will either be cracked shortly after release

Even if they manage to crack it and store the savegames locally:
There is no way that I pay for a game and have to use an illegal crack on it, just to be safe from disconnects while playing.

Ubisoft decided to hassle me, a paying, honest and loyal customer, with this sort of uncomfortable DRM-Crap so I am simply not giving them my money. And I also would not play any cracked version a) because i resent piracy and b) so Ubi cannot say "See, it's the pirates we have to take those measures!"